While more than competent
in hand-to-hand combat, training in the jungles of her native
islands has shaped the Amazon's skill with the bow and missile
weapons into one of unparalleled excellence. With the bow, her
only rivals are the Sisters of the Sightless Eye. But, unlike
her sisters in arms, the Amazon is also highly adept in the use
of spears and other thrown weapons. The powers they possess are
a combination of Prime magic, Holy magic and ingenious weapon
construction.
The Diablo 2 Amazon strength lies in ranged attacks and as well as being able to fire a bow or throw a javelin she can enhance these attacks by way of imbuing the weapons with various magical effects such as poison, cold and lightning. There are also skills which will improve her overall proficiency in their uses, for instance, 'Penetrate' and 'Pierce' in her Passive & Magic tree will increase her % chance to hit and ability to strike more than one monster with an arrow or javelin. She has six Passive skills at her disposal and all of them are quite useful to most Amazon builds.
The Amazon begins equipped with a stack of javelins. There are many types of javelins that you'll find later in the game, with more damaging ones that require more strength and dexterity to equip, and have various max allowed per stack.
The Amazon can use her starting equipment to stab or throw, or switch to a bow as soon as she finds one of those. She's good with spears also, a decent early spear find and a point in Jab will make for smooth sailing through Act One at the very least, though you'll need to work to keep enough mana early on.
